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Poole
Ben Beinn
Pentacle
- Cat No: P002
- updated:2025-12-27
This is astonishing — a new kind of weather-forecast music!? Landscape experimental organic electronics that transcends the axis of time. Enter Poole, a UK-based composer/sound artist.
Field recordings gathered in western Scotland, microtonal harmonies, dissonance, Celtic new age, Gaelic, Norwegian, Gaelic. "Ben Beinn" is built from sonic imagery shaped by the slow pressure of earth and sky.
Field recordings gathered in western Scotland,
Track List

"1000" (sample1), where bagpipes and strings resound as if rising from icicles and frozen streams; "Leaf" (sample2), where sodden moss and mud form a slippery yet rhythmic kaleidoscope; and "365 Days of Rain" (sample3), which actually converts rainfall data into rhythmic patterns that quietly drift away from metrical order. Check the tracklist for the full picture.
The press materials include a phrase along the lines of "this isn't music, it's weather" — and indeed, this is remarkable music. Deeply niche, yet it reveals the possibilities of ambient electronic/folk (indigenous) music. Personally, it reminds me of Li Yilei's provocative work from last year, "NONAGE."
It really is a listening experience like watching sunlight break through, watching a storm, looking up at the sky and observing the weather shift; strangely there's no difficulty to it, and there's plenty of ambient-style ear-pleasing texture throughout — that sense of randomness is indeed like changeable weather.
Give it a try. (Original Japanese text by Shhhhh)